The Great Lakes Information Management and Delivery System

Advancing Shared Goals and

Collaborative Solutions

Mary Khoury Scott Sowa, Sagar Mysorekar,

Reid Bogert, Stephanie Judge,

Paul Seelbach, Patrick Doran,

Craig Czarnecki, & Brad Potter

NCER

July 31, 2013

The Mission of the Nature Conservancy

To conserve the lands and waters

on which all life depends

Formed in 1951, committee of ESA

Science-based approach, more

than 700 staff scientists

119 million acres protected

globally; protected thousands of

miles of rivers and operate more

than 100 marine conservation

projects

Over 1 million members

Work in all 50 states and over 30

countries

The Nature Conservancy

facts

Strategic Conservation

Getting the right conservation practices to the

right places in the right amount at the right time,

as efficiently as possible, to achieve realistic goals

The Problem

• Scope and complexity

of the issues

• So many “cooks” in the kitchen

without true collaboration

• Focus on “wrong” solutions

• Lack of expertise for right solution

Landscape-scale issues

present major challenges

Success requires setting shared goals and

collaborative solutions –

The Great Lakes Information Management and

Delivery System facilitates both.

What is an IMDS?

An information supply chain supporting core

decisions of strategic habitat conservation

1. What are realistic desired conditions?

2. What are current conditions;

is there a problem?

3. Can we, and how can we,

strategically achieve our

desired conditions?

4. Are our actions leading to

desired improvements?

GL IMDS Vision

• Get the right information to the right people

in the right format at the right time to

facilitate strategic conservation

Strategic

Conservation

Learn from others:

business sector

• Information supply chains

provide industries with…

• Signals to respond rapidly to needs

• Match supply and demand

Serving the conservation

enterprise

• Connectivity

• USFS

• State DOT

• Counties, Townships

• TNC (Strategy Manager)

• AG runoff

• Invasive sp

• Residential development

• Urban runoff

• Sewage effluent

• Produce

• Clothing

• Electronics

• Health and Beauty

• Proctor & Gamble

• Johnson and

Johnson

• Etc.

Store Manager

Site Manager

Supply Chain Managers Supply Chain Managers

Supply Chain Managers?

Supply Chain Managers?

Assess and adapt

Knowledge Network

The 3 D’s

Data

Decision Tools

Dynamic Maps

Catalogs of:

Integrated Information

Supports

users and

contributors

telling

complete

stories

What is next ?

• Build out issues

• Build contribution interface

• Build governance structure

Questions?

mkhoury@tnc.org